Afghanistan's greatest athletes and greatest resource
I can't imagine what it must be like for an Afghani child of 8 or 9 years old to grow up in a place where all they've ever known o…
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US Jobs: Good News-Bad News?
The US unemployment rate fell from 8.3% to 8.2%, but overall job creation in the US fell below projected expectations. Does this m…
Afghanistan digital carbon copy
In the last few days I have been talking to finance experts about: Going long on Afghanistan Education. Supporting education is a …
Milosevic, Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam, Chavez
Not so Gentlemen's Club of Despotic Dictators - The Assad regime, Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were all antipathetic toward …
Building schools in Afghanistan and supporting veteran businesses is not an act of philanthropy?
I have shared Film Annex's mission of building schools in Afghanistan and creating Veteran business opportunities with several fri…
Landmine Awareness Day at UN
It is now about intensive de-mining efforts from Afghanistan to Bosnia Herzegovina to Ivory Coast, and the United Nations took op…
Afghanistan and its Education System's Technological Revolution
Beyond the tanks, some distance away from gunfire, and devoid of wreckage, the schools of Afghanistan are buzzing with modern tech…
The Truth About Afghanistan's Economy
In the last few days I spent time on Skype talking to our cinematographers shooting Afghanistan videos for Film Annex. We are focu…
Overnight Retreat for UNSG & UN Security Council
There will be no sleeping bags, campfires or marshmallows but a lot of fireside conversations. This now annual outing will go on t…
Bosnia&Herzegovina's Remaining Refugees/Displaced
The UN has highlighted at least part of the problem - many still remain displaced/refugees. Perhaps worse though is that even thos…
